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Plebeians were allowed to have their own _____ and to serve as tribunes.
assembly
This most powerful governing branch controlled the finances, passed laws, and oversaw foreign affairs.
Senate
The _____ calendar is based on the birth of Christ and adds a day to February every four years.
Gregorian
_____ believe that the goal of life is to give glory and praise to God.
Christians
The _____ ______ was weakened by soldiers giving allegiance to their officers, rather than to the empire.
Roman Empire
_____ were written down so that plebeians could be familiar with them.
Laws
Two patricians served with equal authority in place of a king to manage the affairs of the government, command the Roman army, and serve as supreme judges.
consuls
The _____ _____ was a period of peace that began under Octavian.
Pax Romana
_____ traveled throughout Galilee teaching and healing sicknesses among the people.
Jesus
False ________ divided the Roman Catholic Church.
teaching
Plebeians were given _____ power.
veto
Several of this type of group existed in the early republic with this group being the most powerful by voting on new laws, making declarations of war, and electing members of another governing branch.
Assembly of Centuries
The main architectural feature of the Colosseum is the _____.
arch
Peter preached at _____, and almost three thousand people repented of their sins and were baptized.
Pentecost
Christians were __________ by Diocletian for worshiping God rather than the false gods of Rome.
persecuted
The plebeians could be elected as _____.
consuls
_____ _____ were used to promote trade, exchange cultural ideas, and spread the gospel.
Roman roads
_____ believed that true happiness in this life can be found if people are free from fear.
Epicureans
Nero persecuted _____ by putting them to death.
Christians
The Roman Empire was ________ when Diocletian put assistant rulers over each half.
weakened
Plebeians were allowed to _____ patricians.
marry
The triumvirate included Crassus, Pompey, and _____ _____.
Julius Caesar
_____ believed that doing one’s duty leads to happiness and that fate governs all things.
Stoics
__________ _ divided the empire, and the western part fell to barbarians.
Theodosius I
__________ divided the empire in half, keeping the eastern part under his control and appointing a ruler for the western half.
Diocletian